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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Milan) : from corrente ‘running’, ‘flowing’, ‘stream’ (from Latin currere ‘to run’), applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a stream or possibly as a nickname for someone who was fleet of foot, a messenger, or someone always in a hurry.

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